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The Wednesday Post
I decided to delete my Wednesday post. One, I don’t want to argue with Thomas Ross about this. Two, I don’t think the person is worth defending. My opinion still stands for those who read it, but I’d rather not have my defense be mistaken for something it isn’t. Maybe I’ll come back to a […]
You Know You’re Too Intelligent to Entertain Christianity If….
A brief scan online early on a Sunday morning alerted me to a contemptible smear of the Bible by internet magazine Salon, entitled, “The right hides behind a fictional Bible: Memo to Ted Cruz and Donald Trump — your favorite book is made up.” Breathe easy. I looked and few out of the tiny orbit of […]
Galatians 2:20–the Keswick “Christ-life”? part 2 of 4 in Does Christ live the Christian Life for the Christian? The Keswick View of Galatians 2:20 Examined
As noted in part 1 of this series, in the Higher Life movement, the doctrine that Christ lives the Christian life, while the believer simply passively trusts or abides, is the “Christ-life”; “The Christian life is a large, generous Christ-life that lives itself” (pg. 181, Account of the Union Meeting for the Promotion of Scriptural […]
What Is Worship?
We train future pastors in our church. My philosophy or belief about training a pastor, which I believe I should be doing, is that I should be giving him what he needs to reproduce what I do. I don’t want to give him less than what it is I am and do. We offer the […]
Producing Experiences with the Flesh and Calling It the Spirit
As I see it, Charismatics are as crazy as ever, but revivalists are also the worst they’ve ever been. You can add to that the influence on evangelicals, including conservative evangelicals. I’m talking about another type of bait and switch. Church growth movement baits with fleshly lures switched in the end with some modification of […]
Upcoming Courses for Men Training for the Ministry and Others in Your Church
At Mukwonago Baptist Church we are going to be offering two new courses in the relatively near future, Lord willing. 1.) The second semester of 1st year Hebrew will be offered. You can watch the first semester videos or enroll here. We are going to be going at a relatively leisurely pace, so that while […]
The Pope, Stephen Colbert, Hillary’s Apology, and Truth
For absolute truth to exist, God must exist. For truth to be absolute, it must be transcendent, that is, not dependent. I think of James 1:17: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Whatever comes […]
Kim Davis, Gavin Newsom, and the Christian’s Obedience to Unlawful Laws
Marriage according to natural law (and scripture) and so by definition is between only a man and a woman. Same sex marriage isn’t marriage. In 2000, the State of California adopted Proposition 22 which, as an ordinary statute, forbade recognition or licensing of same-sex marriages in the state. In 2004, then Democrat mayor of San […]
The Lord’s Supper: Close, Closed, or In-Between?
There has been a long-standing debate among Baptists about whether the correct position on the Lord’s Supper is close communion, where baptized members of Baptist churches other than the assembly in which the ordinance is being celebrated partake along with the host church’s members, or closed communion, where the ordinance is restricted to the members […]
Enablers of a False Gospel and Bad Church
Consider the following criminal law: At law, an accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even if they take no part in the actual criminal offense. Even further, A person charged with aiding and abetting or accessory is usually not present when the crime itself is committed, but he […]
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